They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I did feel a 'something', like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation.

The heart knows not of distance, space nor time. It meshes to the fabric of its desire & follows on an immeasurable continuum.

Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

To be famous and broke is hard.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.